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Launching with the playful
opening track "Click Click Bang Bang" with
a propulsive upright bassline Loosely based on the infamous 1960 mob war between the Winter Hill gang and their rivals that took place in Boston, this isn't quite a concept album as it is a period piece. "As I read more and more about the gang (damn Wikipedia!), I realized that a lot of the music we find inspiration from like the Shangri Las, Ronnettes, etc. was probably coming out of the car stereos while a gangster in the back seat wrapped piano wire around the neck of a gangster in the front seat," explains Morgan. Miss Derringer have been featured recently on the covers of LA Weekly, LA CityBeat (where Liz was voted "2008 Artist of the Year"), Music Matters, among others and have toured with Blondie, Bad Religion, IAMX, and John Doe.
Miss Derringer are Liz McGrath (vocals), Morgan Slade (guitar), Sylvain de Muizon (bass) and Cody James (drums). Clem Burke (Blondie) plays drums on "Bulletproof Heart." Winter Hill was produced by band members Sylvain de Muizon, Morgan Slade with Mathias Schneeberger (Greg Dulli, Joseph Arthur), except “Black Tears” and “Heartbreaks & Razorblades” by John Kastner (Doughboys, Asexuals). The album was mixed by Vic Florencia (Nelly Furtado, Danko Jones, Joss Stone). Miss Derringer and international advertising agency Deutsch, Inc. have formed an unusual creative partnership under which the agency will help in the launch and marketing of Winter Hill. Among the many strategies in place and/or planned, Deutsch have constructed the band's website and online store, have designed the CD packaging and related merchandising materials, and will pitch the band's music for placement in ads for its clients, which include IKEA, Saturn, and Sony PlayStation. The band will be touring nationally with Girl In A Coma. Tour dates are below:
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LOS
ANGELES, CA - The
widely celebrated music of MISS DERRINGER mine
the dark and oft-times twisted outlaw landscape of punk disaffectation,
New Wave disdain, 50s girl-group attitude and hip-shaking pop. The
new album WINTER HILL (release date: July
14, 2009 on Nickel and Dime Records/Triple X)
bottles their unique formula and serves it up straight, no chaser.
"Our music is like the Shangri La's duking it out with Duane
Eddy and The Misfits," explains guitarist Morgan Slade.
"Visually, someone said we are like a band from the movie Beetlejuice...
and oddly, it fits!"
and
Blondie-styled shimmy, the album kicks off with a 'bang' and doesn't
let up. From the twang-fueled girl-group send-up "Black
Tears" to the velvety forelorn angst of "Death
by Desire" to the dramatic "Drop Shot
Dead" (which could be a lost song from West Side
Story), the album creates an almost visceral aural
backdrop to a story that doesn't even really have a storyline.